Introduction to Fracture Mechanics. Fatigue of metallic materials. Laws for calculating crack growth. Fatigue of composite materials. Use of finite element programs for crack problems. Basic principles of the Damage Tolerance philosophy. Analysis of crack growth mechanism based on the Damage Tolerance philosophy. Methodology for predicting remaining structural life. Example of structural calculation with the damage tolerance philosophy. Crack growth calculation programs (AFGROW–NASGRO – RAPID). Smart Materials and Structures. Introduction to Structural Health Monitoring. Laboratory: Demonstration of fatigue experiment on an INSTRON testing machine. Numerical applications using the finite element method.
- Teacher: Ευστάθιος Θεοτόκογλου
ECTS : 4
Language : el